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Died. Godfrey Charles Isaacs, until last fall managing director of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co., brother of Rufus D. Isaacs, Earl Reading, Viceroy of India; in London, of a clot of blood on the brain...
...enormous. On the one hand, there is a large section of Hindu opinion to be reckoned with; and on the other, the Hindus and all India have again to be reminded that British justice takes into account nautch girls and low-caste merchants. Undoubtedly, the Maharaja must go. Rufus Daniel Isaacs (Lord Reading) was born in London a little more than 64 years ago, son of a Jewish merchant. After an education in London, Brussels, Hanover, he joined the London Stock Exchange, but quickly gave that...
...succession of brilliant advances. In 1913, he succeeded Lord Alverstone as Lord Chief Justice; and at the outbreak of the War, he advised several financial measures, notably the issue of one-pound notes. Three times he was selected as British representative to the U. S.: 1915, as Sir Rufus Isaacs, head of the Anglo-French Loan Mission; 1917, as Viscount Reading, Special Envoy; 1918, as Earl Reading, Special Ambassador...
...included in the program, will be given by Hollis R. Bailey '77, who will speak on "The Puritan Clergy." The Ingersoll lecture on Immortality is to be delivered by Dr. Edgar S. Brightman, Professor of Philosophy at Boston University, and the Southworth lectures will be given by Dr. Rufus M. Jones, Professor of Philosophy at Haverford College, who will discuss "Mysticism and Asceticism" and "Mysticism and Organization". The Hyde lecture is to be delivered by Professor Lewis Hodous, Secretary of the Kennedy School of Missions in Hartford, Conn., who will talk on "Christianity and the Far East...
...Senators' private gallery, converted into an executive gallery, contained in its first row Colonel Coolidge, Mrs. Goodhue, Miss Skinner, John Coolidge. Mr. and Mrs. Stearns joined them. The Dawes children (Mrs. Malcolm Ericson, and Dana and Virginia, the adopted son and daughter) sat in the second row. Beman, Rufus and Henry Dawes, brothers, were also there...